Improvement in photographic albums



y UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ELIZUR D. GR`IGGS, CF .VATERBURX CONNECTICUT.

iMPRovi-:M ENT IN PHoTocRA'PHlC ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,310, dated May 20, 1862.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it 'known that I, ELIZUR D. Cruces, of Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Photographic Albums; and I d o hereby declare that the following'is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of the leaf of a photographic album with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a central section of the same from top to bottom. Fig. 3 is a back view of one of the two pieces of card or other board of which the exterior surface of y the leaf' is composed. Fig. 4 is a face view of the fiangcd metallic mat which constitutes the principal feature of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of luy-invention is tov adapt metallic mais to the leaves of photographic albums; and to this end it consists in securing such a mat in place by providing it with a flange which is interposed between the outer sheet of card-board or other material which forms either surface of the leaf and the middle or back piece or body of the leaf and held in place by the union of the said outer sheet with the said middle or back piece or body, substantially as hereinafter specified.

A is the piece of card-board or pasteboard which constitutesV the middle or body of the leaf.

B B are the pieces of which the two outer surfaces are composed, and C C are the 1nei t-allic mats, made larger than the openings in tions (t a, setback from the portions which are exposed to view through the said openings a distance equal to the thickness of the pieces B B, the said marginal port-ions being thusV made to form the flanges by which the mats are secured in the leaf.

The mats constructed as above described are placed behind their respective pieces B B, with their prominentportions b Z) in the openings of the said pieces, and their flanges ct a close `against the backs of the said pieces. The paste or other adhesive material by which the pieces B B are united to A is applied along two sides and along the lower part of B B, as shown by the red tint in Fig. 3, and on A and B B being placed together and subjected to pressure to produce theiradhesion the mats are secured, being prevented from lateral displacement by the projection of the portions dy d in the openings of the pieces B B- and prevented from being drawn out through the said openings by the iianges c a. To prevent the pictures D D, in being inserted through the opening left'between the upper parts of A and B from catching the upper edges of the iianges c a, a strip of paper, c, is

pasted to the backof each piece B to cover' the upper edge of the iiange of the mat before uniting A and B B.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent', is f l Combining the mat with the pieces A B B by means of a flange, a ci, interposed and secured lbetween the said pieces, substantially as herein spccied.

E. D. GrRIGrCiS.V lvitnesses:

J AMES LAIRD, M. M. LIVINGsToN, CH. A. FIsKE. 

